On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:09, Robert Howells wrote: > http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120110704.html?from=storylhs
Not always. My Win2k install on my home desktop is well into its second year, alive and well. Of course, all I ever use it for is the odd game, and I'm utterly paranoid about installing software I can't verify the quality of. Things have improved a lot with win2k and XP. My experience of Win2k and MacOS X so far has been that they're about equally likely to go insane and decide that the sky is purple. Both are incredible improvements over their predecessors. Of course, I'm also a lot less than impressed with OSX in this comparison, but perhaps it's just my luck or maybe I've been doing something horribly wrong. I'm presently rebuilding that OSX box that decided that it didn't feel like shutting down. All other attempts at a fix have failed, and it's been getting even quirkier lately. *sigh*. Speaking of such, is there any way to get OSX to use a real swap partition? Or is that just my UNIX-user nature saying "arrggh, swapfiles are evil" for not real reason? Craig Ringer
